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Mr Tugendhat added: “They don’t treat fallout in the same way as we do.<\/p>\n
“And so the assumptions are not quite the same. That said, Russia has frequently threatened nuclear deployments in the past.<\/p>\n
“In fact, I think most recently I’m probably going to get the date wrong but I think it was in 2016 against Denmark.<\/p>\n
“So this is not unusual but at the same time it is concerning and it is not impossible that a Russian military order to use the whole field nuclear weapons could be given.”<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n Due to sanctions given to Russia for invading Ukraine, President Putin has held talks over the weekend.<\/p>\n Putin ordered his senior military advisors to move Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces on high alert during a televised meeting.<\/p>\n “So I order to move Russia’s deterrence forces to a special regime of duty.<\/p>\n DON’T MISS: <\/strong><\/p>\n Putin facing shell shock as US moves to ‘choke’ Russia with major retaliation “Senior officials of the leading NATO countries also allow aggressive statements against our country, therefore I order the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff [of the Russian Armed Forces] to transfer the deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty.”<\/p>\n Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has reacted to Putin’s threats saying: “I fear this conflict could be very, very bloody.<\/p>\n “We need to avoid this at all costs. This is why it is so important, the work we are doing to degrade the Russian military complex.”<\/p>\n And speaking to the BBC, Tory MP Tobias Ellwood said: “We’ve seen what he’s done in Syria for example, he can certainly use other weapons systems which haven’t been tested or that we’re used to.”<\/p>\n Mr Ellwood added: “Chemical weapons and the worst-case scenario would be low yield nuclear weapons as well.”<\/p>\nUkraine: British teacher in Kyiv says Putin 'will not win'<\/h3>\n
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